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Otto Heinrich became Count Palatine of Palatinate-Neuburg at a young age and succeeded his uncle Friedrich II as elector in 1556. He had no children, and upon his death on 12 February 1559 he was succeeded by Friedrich III the Pious . Otto Heinrich had introduced the Lutheran Reformation into his hereditary lands of Neuburg and Sulzbach by 1542.
Louis IV, Count Palatine of the Rhine (1 January 1424, Heidelberg – 13 August 1449, Worms) was an Elector Palatine of the Rhine from the House of Wittelsbach in 1436 - 1449. Biography [ edit ] Louis IV was the son of Louis III, Elector Palatine and his second wife Matilda of Savoy . [1]
Nov 9, 2022 · When King Frederick V. Von Der Pfalz Palatinate-Simmern, Elector Palatine Of The Rhine In The Holy Roman Empire King Of Bohemia was born on 26 August 1596, in Lauterhofen, Neumarkt, Bavaria, Germany, his father, Friedrich IV Kurfürst von der Pfalz, was 22 and his mother, Louise Juliana van Nassau, was 20.
The Counts Palatine of the Rhine were special in so far that the territory eventually grew so big (simplified said by being given to a family, the Wittelsbach, who held a lot of land even before that and united that with the land that already belonged to the "office" of the Count Palatine) that they were considered among the most important in ...
The Elector of the Palatinate (German: Kurfürst von der Pfalz) ruled the Palatinate of the Rhine in the Kingdom of Germany and the Holy Roman Empire from 915 to 1803. The Palatinate emerged from the County Palatine of Lotharingia which came into existence in the 10th century. Wigeric of Lotharingia, count of the Bidgau (c. 915/916–922) Godfrey, count of the Jülichgau (c.940) During the ...
Aug 26, 1596 - Nov 29, 1632. Frederick V was the Elector Palatine of the Rhine in the Holy Roman Empire from 1610 to 1623, and reigned as King of Bohemia from 1619 to 1620. He was forced to abdicate both roles, and the brevity of his reign in Bohemia earned him the derisive sobriquet "the Winter King". Frederick was born at the hunting lodge in ...
Counts palatine of Lotharingia, 915–1085. House of Ezzonen. Counts palatine of the Rhine, 1085–1214. Hohenstaufen counts palatine. Welf counts palatine. The Palatinate under the Wittelsbach: the Electoral dignity (1214–1803) House of Wittelsbach. Electors of Bavaria and counts palatine of the Rhine, 1777–1803. Later history.
